We are now officially in the lambing lull, that break between when the AI lambs and lambs from the AI backup rams are due and the lambs sired by the secondary rams are due. It’s been a busy and somewhat difficult lambing so far. Our AI experiment was a rousing...

Time to get the solar panels up onto the shop roof for the PV system. It’s quite a long way and everyone is using safety harnesses and ropes. Hay barn is cleaned out ready for the new hay. SHould be arriving today or tomorrow. My DNA cable sweater is also coming...

Desert Weyr Alice is a first time ewe and seemed to be having a few problems so Ken was holding her head while I checked to see what we needed to do. She is quite calm which was fortunate. She ended up having a 9 pound 5 ounce ram lamb with horns about half an inch...

We’ve had a lot of cold and rain and we had some lambs born in the irrigation ditch that were cold. So we made a small lamb box to put the one colder lamb in for a few hours. It worked well and by the time the lamb got warm and climbed out everything was fine....